Auster

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What first emulation handheld would you recommend? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago

Dunno how it is through Retroarch, but what I used was a separated program, Lime3DS ("Azahar" now? Got the APK in the short window it was named that)

What first emulation handheld would you recommend? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 days ago

If not, only other pocket system I'm familiar with for emulation is the PS Vita, but given being from the same generation as the 3DS, the most it can run is Saturn (emulator got dropped from Retroarch so maybe not ideal?), PS1 (through emulator and native support in the PSP mode) and some PC games through source ports (and heavy graphical downgrades when needed).

What first emulation handheld would you recommend? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Would phones count? I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro, and would recommend it as it's surprisingly powerful for its release year. Can even tackle some PS2 games through AetherSX2 and using a vanilla Android. Also works with 3DS emulation, at least from what I tested of Bravely Second.

Rummages through Tokyo in search of cookies in c/nocontextpics@lemmy.world
Polish Hussars give you wings in c/historymemes@piefed.social
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 days ago

In the name of God!

explaining the jokeOutro of Nuclear Blasts' lyrics videos for the album all have that part from The Last Stand track

Polish Hussars give you wings in c/historymemes@piefed.social
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 8 points 3 days ago

(Also a reply to the Titus post)

I'm a bit hooked on old anime. in c/animemes@ani.social
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 4 days ago

Will be looking at those 👀

Thanks!

I'm a bit hooked on old anime. in c/animemes@ani.social
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Went back to anime recently, and they feel like they're all becoming the same thing, least checking random ones through Crunchyroll for some months now. Art style is becoming pretty same-y even for older, still running shows, story setting and pacing also seem to be more uninventive than ever, and in action animes, thunder or similar-looking effects sound like always have the same audio track playing. I wonder if those series are already using AI as I remember seeing being proposed in a news a while back.

Always Choose OS with Dual Boot? in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 4 days ago

Been a while since I tinkered with dualbooting so memory's hazy, but see if you can install Grub after the systems have already been installed.

How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread in c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty lacking, but this comments reminds me of something:

"Why not use an alt, or even make a new alt, to have a feed of just languages I either study, can understand by extension, or that I don't get opportunity to use much?"

Made myself an account on another Mbin instance (love domain blocking and UI simple and responsive to scripts), and made sure the first thing was to set the languages. Also will be putting the homepage as one of the tabs my browser automatically opens at startup, but it already looks promising!

And on a side note, Germans and French do like to talk, eh? Their posts often flood my feeds even with English enabled 😅 (not complaining though; should make study easier)

Memory Retention Issues in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 4 days ago

Second the taking notes idea.

Can say in my case, a txt file for useful commands I've been feeding since I started using Linux 4 years ago has been invaluable.

Memory Retention Issues in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unsure if it'd be your case, but maybe you're too tired? Tiredness can mess memory afaik. Or maybe you're not using the ideal learning methods? In my case for language learning, for example, repetition is a guaranteed way for me to lose focus, instead with cinversations being ideal for learning.

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Testing a Raspberry Pi 3B as an internet hotspot - anything I should be concerned about? (thebrainbin.org)
 

Like issues with uptime, risk of backdoors, privacy concerns, etc.?

Using Raspberrian Bookworm, input connection is through an ethernet cable and the hostpot was set up through Pi-Apps' hotspot tool and is using WSA2 and password, but nothing else to note.

Not much info I could find through articles online.

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Resources on offline digital dictionaries and related (thebrainbin.org)
 

Thought I'd share them.

Some are rather niche, some you need to be a bit loose on defining as offline (Yomiwa and HanYou), and some only had physical releases.
But since some of those are older than me and I still use them, maybe others can find use in the information too.

And with how many potential languages combinations there are, plus with how degraded DRM-free software culture had become, finding those handful few below was a task. Any other suggestions?

The physical-only, released as CD-ROMsMichaelis - Windows 95~XP:

  • 🇧🇷 ⇆ 🇺🇸
  • 🇧🇷 ⇆ 🇪🇸

Delta Translator 2.0 - Windows 95~XP:

  • 🇧🇷 ⇆ 🇺🇸
    *Translates phrases but translations can be rather lackluster; haven't found the 3.0 edition yet to test

Dictionary Barsa - Windows 95~XP:

  • 🇧🇷 (meanings, synonyms & antonyms)

*All four working on Windows Vista, both VM and bare metal.

The Android onesYomiwa - Google Play:

  • 🇯🇵 → 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇸🇦 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇭🇺 🇮🇩 🇮🇹 🇰🇷 🇵🇹 🇷🇺 🇪🇦 🇸🇪 🇹🇭
    ¹ Not all of it works offline, but for what does and from what I tested, can be set up on a vanilla Android VM, and then you cut internet access and never turn it on again
    ² Also finds names by reading form, OCR (limited; yet to test the paid version), on-screen handwriting detection and word detection in phrases

Ordbøkene - Google Play:

  • 🇳🇴 (meanings, inflections & conjugations; bokmål & nynorsk)

Royal Spanish Academy (RAE)'s Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) - Google Play:

  • 🇪🇦 (meanings & conjugations)
    *I tested the update from 2022, from when it was paid, and forgot to update, so don't know how the current version is (hopefully not like RAE's Catalan dictionary, a glorified browser with external databases).

Babo - Google Play (delisted):

  • 🇰🇷 (hangul) → 🇺🇸 & 🇰🇷 (hanja)

HanYou - Google Play:

  • 🇨🇳 → 🇬🇧 🇸🇦 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇭🇺 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇹🇭 🇨🇳 *Same thing as Yomiwa - from the same creators

QuickDic - F-Droid:

  • Uses pairs of languages as its databases for dictionaries, so too many to reasonably list. Databases can be downloaded from within the program or from iirc Gitlab or Github

The Python onesCutlet - from GitHub:

  • 🇯🇵 → romaji

Korean to Romaja script, from a Grok response:

  • 🇰🇷 → romaja
from korean_romanizer.romanizer import Romanizer
text = input()
romanizer = Romanizer(text)
print()
print(romanizer.romanize())

¹ Copy the script to a txt and save as a .py file, e.g. hangul_to_romaja.py, then run with Python, e.g. python3 hangul_to_romaja.py
² Requires the korean_romanizer library - install by running pip install korean_romanizer

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Update on Grayjay on a Raspberry Pi5: it works! (thebrainbin.org)
 

Follow up of my post from earlier this month in case someone needs in the future:

Got myself a Pi5, flashed KonstaKANG's AOSP 16 fork, and installed the "universal" APK of Grayjay.

Tested some 10 or so videos, and so far, been working pretty much the same as on phone, including third party plugins.

Only exception I observed is that it's stuck in landscape mode, and I expect (yet to test) that it stays like that until I use some program to force the screen to rotate.

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Grayjay on a Raspberry Pi5? (thebrainbin.org)
 

Does it work on a Pi5 running systems like the Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS or KonstaKANG's LineageOS?

Don't have the device (yet?), but Grayjay would be one of the main uses for it for me, so concerned I might be wasting money, thus asking if anyone would know.

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Grayjay on a Raspberry Pi5? (thebrainbin.org)
 

Does it work on a Pi5 running systems like the Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS or KonstaKANG's LineageOS?

Don't have the device (yet?), but Grayjay would be one of the main uses for it for me, so concerned I might be wasting money, thus asking if anyone would know.

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Instrument used in Sabaton's "Templars"? (thebrainbin.org)
 

Specifically, the one right before vocals start.

Sounds like something made of bronze, like a bell or some sort of plate, but much deeper than I'd expect.

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Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers? (thebrainbin.org)
 

Besides lemmy.eco.br, feddit.it and lemmy.pt? Tried looking for but information seems scarce.

Also asking for someone who doesn't speak English, and no need to be Reddit-like instances specifically, so Mastodon, Peertube, BookWyrm, etc. work too.

Thanks in advance!

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Some "quasi features" for Mbin through Ublock Origin filters (thebrainbin.org)
 

On another post, an user had asked for the filters I use, so pasting them below to make usability in Mbin better.

Some notes:

  • From what I checked from page sources of a few instances using Mbin, and considering a few of those filters were for kbin.social (RIP) and then repurposed without major adaptations, those filters shouldn't break on most Mbin instances, at least as the engine and its implementations are now.
  • Using thebrainbin.org as the site for the filters to check, but that can be replaced with the site you may be using, like fedia.io, kbin.earth, etc.
  • For disabling a given filter, or to add comments on Ublock Origin's filters page, add a ! to the beginning of the line.
  • Worth noting those filters also make the title and body of posts disappear in the posts' respective pages when active.

The filters:

Hiding specific poststhebrainbin.org##a[href="href_here"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

Explanation:
href_here is what appears after the domain name, so for example:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/This-is-not-a-complaints-forum
What you want is /m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/This-is-not-a-complaints-forum, which turns the filter into this:
thebrainbin.org##a[href="/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/This-is-not-a-complaints-forum"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

This filter needs to be repeated for each post you want to hide.

Probably could replace href= for href^= (matches anything that starts with what comes after it) or href*= (matches anything that includes what comes after it), if this is faster for anyone, so for example:
thebrainbin.org##a[href^="/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/545669/"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])
thebrainbin.org##a[href="/545669/"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

Hiding communities already subscribed to or that you blocked on the Magazines pagesthebrainbin.org##span:has-text(Unblock):upward(tr) thebrainbin.org##span:has-text(Unsubscribe):upward(tr)

Hiding posts upvoted and downvotedthebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) thebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"]) thebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__down active"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) thebrainbin.org##form[class="vote__down active"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"])

Some filters for the defunct instances kbin.social & kbin.cafe I forgot to delete in case they're useful! Kbin Cafe - hiding liked posts: kbin.cafe##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) kbin.cafe##form[class="vote__up active"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"])

! Kbin Social - hiding specific posts: kbin.social##a[href="/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/951126/Totaled-Eclipse"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) kbin.social##a[href="/m/kbinMeta/p/6372596/at-ernest-I-m-up-to-cut-down-the-spam-from-all"]:upward(blockquote[id^="post-"])

! Kbin Cafe - hiding specific posts: !kbin.cafe##a[href="href_aqui"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"]) kbin.cafe##a[href="/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/216192/What-is-wayland"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

! Kbin Social - hiding my own posts: kbin.social##a[href="/u/Auster"]:upward(article[id^="entry-"])

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